with much stronger a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report on r t. l i'm sorry no washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture when it comes to now balancing our nation's budget do we really need to amend the constitution to make it happen something first time a balanced budget amendment has been introduced tonight i'll discuss this very issue and break down the reasons why in my opinion it's a bad business and a bad idea and there here are three words you don't hear very often made in america

even where the recent spike in job numbers those three words are far from our vocabulary i'll explain but first there are three out of the challenges yet but it was causing democrats across state lines may be headed home or maybe not. you need to know this there are reports that a well democrats in wisconsin i call them the filibuster democrats maybe returning home soon to a law governor walker's anti-union build up this mess and democrats are calculating that even if they lose this fight walker and his republican cohorts have inflicted so much political damage on themselves of a cripple for the rest of their terms and if the democrats understand however that . publicans now days are shameless in their war against working people one missing

senator bob janet put it this way saying we have to realize there's only so much we can do as a group and make a stand it's really up to the public to be engaged in carrying the torch on this issue so what this is does this mean the fight is over in wisconsin for more on this john nichols washington correspondent for the nation joins me from madison john welcome tom it's great to be with you and banks for all your coverage of what's been going on in my home state thank you jon i'm here in stories and then i'm hearing stories that the stories are stories. that fitzgerald all is the you know the we're going to come back we're not going to come back we're going to meet at the line in the middle we're going to have. you know a rope pulling contest what's going on up. well here's what here's the best we could sell i think a lot of people that confused this morning by an article in the wall street journal where some headline writers specially suggested that the democrats were coming back

. almost eminently we know quite a bit when you read the story however it was just a rehash of things that have been said over the last two and a half to three weeks it didn't there wasn't they are there but it did effect he the dialogue at least for a few hours very quickly jon erpenbach one of the state senators very well more social media friendly state senators put up a response on his facebook page in which he said you know look nobody talk us about this we are not going to come back today or or we're any time so the big story and big story of the day really was that state senate minority leader mark miller a democrat wrote a letter to the governor and to the senate majority leader scott fitzgerald in which he said look we want to negotiate we want to talk with you when i come to the border we'll find a good meeting spot and we can start a dialogue about you know maybe try to settle this incredible thing was the

response of the governor which was literally out rant and to negate press conference in which you referred to miller as. very dismissive so most aggressive language i've heard yet of the governor and then in the early afternoon scrap its republican minority leader sent a letter in which he again referred to miller as ridiculous and suggested it won't like that miller might have lost his senses it was an incredibly rough on the legislative letter suggesting to me actually that were all the attention on the democrats for all the suggestions falling apart there is some evidence that the republicans are really the ones who are feeling the strain here he in two thousand and nine in a speech to the. can businessman's launch in madison wisconsin scott walker said that god has told him what to do every step of the way in his life including what jobs to take who to marry and when to run to governor for governor this is starting

to sound eerily sarah pailin ish from earlier do you think god has said no collective bargaining to walker and if so do you think that it will cause walker to hold out to the bitter end. oh i can tell you is that i've known scott walker better part of twenty years is they have hastert my in-laws church shot and killed in wisconsin so i'm pretty familiar with the guy and one thing i know is that he wanted to run for governor of wisconsin in two thousand and six five years ago and was told not to run by karl rove because they had another candidate they prefer so he may be confusing god and karl rove well that happens a lot to republicans i know it does but i can tell you this scott walker is easy political animal he reads polls he consumes media about politics if you look at to co-produce call from a while back he was going through all the media coverage pros who are not the truth of the matter is scott walker is cornered right now he's looking for

a way to win this fight doesn't want to back down there's no doubt of that but he's feeling a lot of pressure that's why his press conference today was so over the top and i think it says that if the democrats hold out for a bit longer they may yet they may yet be able to bend the arc of history and it might have be god that scott walker is listening to eat might actually have to listen to some republicans in the state senate who say this is going too far from your lips to god's ears let's let's let's hope that works that way john nichols thanks so much for being with us tonight from madison it's great to be with your top again thanks for all your great coverage of this war thank you. as senator johnson said the public may have to carry the torch for the remainder of this debate and the public is ready by the way to do just that union protesters will soon see reinforcements in their opposition of the koch brothers lapdog scott walker's attempt to bust up the unions thousands of farmers are planning to drive

their tractors to madison this coming week to stand in solidarity with their fellow workers farmers are calling the event the farm tractor for our labor tractor kade. tens of thousands of protesters didn't sway walker maybe the side of hundreds of tractors on the capitol grounds will so what's really going on here with some release pretty straightforward stuff this is not about the money america has forty five trillion dollars in wealth would go up plenty of money get a lot of very wealthy people we've got a lot of wealthy general. the rich. in fact if we just cut the bush tax cuts we would say we would have forty four billion dollars extra. michael moore said this back of the best last night madison here's here's what he had to say. america is not wrong. contrary to what those in

power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension because you may choose and so for the life your great grandparents had america is not. shocked. the country. is awash in wealth and caste. jadakiss it's just and it's not in you. it has been transferred in the greatest highs he does three. thousand consumers to the beat. goes up you will reach a nail it it's not about the money it's about power it's about who controls the country ultimately even all this union busting is about the possibility of single party rule if they can destroy the indians the last large funders of the democratic

party you could have nothing but republicans running the country maybe forever. our nation could take on a very very very different shape a very different form and yet there's still that small threat of democracy left actually it's a fairly substantial thread let's call it a rope left it's in the constitution and it says that you and i as individuals have a vote corporations as artificial entities don't again michael moore nailed it brilliantly last night. yes he's moon is there. still seems. one book. is the thing that's the most the job. the print the boots.

that. do the work. which is why it's so important that each one of us gets out there gets active shows up participates and becomes part of the square to mars. still to come on the big picture made in the usa that catchy phrase is going the way of the dinosaur after the break see why so many products we have our homes are made everywhere but in the united states and why we need to start going policy and those influential billionaire. actress lindsay low and keep to my promise to end the preaching about these men and nothing people are suggesting she's hot poker no she says she's a stock. our

county got some good news last week when we learned that one hundred ninety two

thousand new jobs were added in february lowering the unemployment rate below nine percent for the first time since two thousand and nine according to a new report by brookings or by and large still screwed we still have a long way to go to recover from george w. bush's great recession so a lot of this chart is pretty straightforward stuff the evolution of the job gap is the chart. and here we are in two thousand and eight. when things really started falling apart the last actually two thousand and seven the last year of george bush's last two years of his presidency and then in two thousand and nine is the bush great recession really took place and what would happen the strong recovery what would happen if if we had really great you know recovery numbers we'd see by two thousand and twenty three we'd be back to normal if we had just amazing numbers of stuff but we haven't you know what. frankly is much better than what

we're doing right now it might take us until two thousand and sixteen and if we had incredible numbers it would be two thousand and twelve the problem with these is that this is the most likely scenario here and that's a twenty twenty three. back to full employment numbers and even that may not be full employment so we start out with that and and we discover that you know what is causing it why the job losses what is really going on here there's a structural underpinning frankly that has to do with jobs in america are the a.b.c. tell television network to the great show and it's called made in america here's a little clip from of that in this clip he they go into this this family's home and they say let's take out everything it's not made in america and see what's left over to look. this is where it's all going anything foreign made from inside that house. right here and still. the refrigerator gone piano

that is it b.b.'s and every inch of that trailer filled. in with the sun setting the us reason we're about to return to this and this. and this a living room we've one little piece. what are you. quite here. we did leave the kitchen sink because the kitchen sink was the only thing made in america and everything but the kitchen sink and here so the kitchen sink was made america. it's odd that even some of the very very large and heavy things that cost a lot to ship across the sea are not made in america but that's the way it is right now is it that may change as well prices go up back in the one nine hundred sixty ninety percent of all household goods are made you know it's america in the one nine hundred sixty s. now it's under fifty percent they actually refill that house with things made

america what was interesting is after they did it the class was actually the same or even cheaper than the foreign made goods there was a lot harder to find. but what we have here and one of the conclusions of the a.b.c. special was that if all of us spent one percent a day on u.s. aid me goods eighteen cents create two hundred thousand new jobs and two hundred thousand new jobs are going to save the economy one percent of spending is not a large percentage of spending the reality is the tragic reality bernie sanders points this out often is that in the in the in the years since george bush became president we've lost forty eight thousand factories not jobs factories take take any of the major rail lines like you know the commuter from new york to washington d.c. for example and all along the way what you find are just empty factory after complete factory after the factory all those jobs gone to other countries there's a reason for that now this is not happening in germany time magazine and this this

current issue right either great story about the german economic miracle why is it doing so well one of the examples they used was a company called steel s t i h l they make chainsaws and in fact i used to own one back when i would remark that their top end chain saw it two thousand dollars it's totally made in germany it's a family owned company when they were asked why do you make this thing in germany when you could make it cheaper someplace else they said because we're germans and we want to make this in germany want to keep good jobs in our community we know these people we live with these people these are our neighbors we're going to make them here plus they're good there they do good work it's good it's good craftsmanship we can control the quality and it's one of the reasons why steel chainsaws are considered some of the best in the world on the other hand you've got large corporations now in the united states the large corporations like you know meg whitman when she was in for more carly fiorina probably a better example and she was running for the united states senate from california she was a guy i'm from you know a packer drug you know a big shot i came from

a big presidential corporation she sent ten thousand jobs overseas. why because it made more profit for her stark orders well in germany at the suggestion of harry truman u.s. president we couldn't get the stuff through our congress but because germans wrote into their constitution after world war two that any corporation with over a thousand employees their board of directors had to be fifty percent made up of representatives of the employees if you percent now if half your board of directors is your employees do you really think you're going to be hiring executives whose main mission is going to be to send jobs overseas like really if you're in it doesn't happen and that's why germany is still exploiting things like crazy and still manufacturing things more important manufacturing things for germans in germany like we don't do it this is really not about you know good germans and bad americans or you know terrible h. p. good steel as t.h.l.

what it really is about is about policy that we here in the united states have come up with some insane trade policies and same taxation policies they've been pushed through by very very wealthy transnational corporations or the was thirty years and we need to change them now. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think and the u.s. economy recover sooner if we continue adding two hundred thousand jobs each month that's our question for the day here are your choices answer a no because the supreme court allows billionaires to own or destroy politicians or yes americans will realize we need to bring back our jobs. so far the results are about a fifty fifty split but you still have time to vote so it's all more of an icon most or you think the polls open till tomorrow morning.

time now for our best to the rest of the news segment as the glenn beck grand have an expiration date and here times is reporting that fox news is contemplating life without back at the end of this year with his contract expires if there's a black setbacks lost or maybe fading in the last year beck's television show lost over a million viewers as a radio show isn't doing much better it was just dropped in big cities like new york and philly on top of that over three hundred advertisers who fled beck's fox news show thanks in large part to his somewhat argue psychotic ravings and validly offensive and at times even racist diatribes because the public finally had enough is glenn beck now just sour milk here digging deeper into this story james downie

a reporter at the new republic joins me james welcome thanks for having me great to have you with us. back as bill following based on these is just you know generally speaking off the wall just totally off the wall positions is he any use to you know he sort of the shock jock and radio you know i sort of radio i was in shock jock but i you know i know what they are and. you know you just get wilder and wilder and wilder is it do you think that he has this sense that he just has to go just be constantly pushing the envelope or else it's going to collapse around him yeah definitely i mean he he's he's gained his attention basically by coming up with more and more theories so he started out with you know stuff like pan jones and acorn and he got some attention for that and then basically you know to bring people back because he's a controversy figure. he had to basically keep kind of new conspiracies and to make them interesting he had to make them more and more elaborate and going to point out where you know everybody who's basically not quite back conspiring yeah i you know

it's it's i mean his conspiracy theories a lot of people seem to take very seriously. i get i've been doing a radio program for eight years of progressive radio shows on air america for years and i get a fair amount of hate mail and we not a reasonable number of death threats i guess for the business that i'm in but back open to one of the shows with a quote from me about a month ago and i've never gotten in my life so much hate mail forty eight hours i mean and so and so many death threats i mean it was so is like you know we turn one over the f.b.i. i mean it was a serious stuff and we had on franks's francis fox pivots on our program here. who he's been going after for some time and she's getting these kind of death threats. it's and one of the things that i noticed that i thought was really strange my name is hartman with two outs which is the german spelling one is

a is more often li a jewish telling. when he put me when he put kyra for my name on his t.v. show and glenn beck and i know each other we're in the same business we've been around you know we've known each other for a lot of years. spelled with one hand in at least three quarters of the hate mail i got identified me as a jew and as far as i can tell most of the people in his giant conspiracy thing are jewish i mean what's going on with this guy yeah i think it comes from he often adopts his conspiracy theories from even farther to the right from the right wing fringe and a lot of the theories if they're not explicitly anti semitic have included overtones i mean his his one of his got in trouble recently of course is an exposé so to speak of george soros which he basically was rehashing a bunch of tropes about anti semitic. about semitic financier's so i think that pace and people are talking also about how dangerous he is compared to

a lot of other talk shows i mean there was a there have been people arrested who were going to carry out violence because of something listen to him back so well that was one of the things that surprised me i didn't see any mention of byron williams in your article and i said in a room with a variance in him now that the guy was frozen the tides foundation goes you know there was a number of us there but he was telling the story of what it was like when he got the call from the state troopers that this guy had fired two hundred rounds into the police cars injured to go to cops and they were on the way to his and he was on his way to his place to kill him and the board that was meeting and he was spouting glenn beck bs. i mean it's a shame it got lost in the in the for the giffords shooting the people were focusing on sarah palin because that's what they want to do basically but you know i mean you can directly type back to the to that the tides foundation to several other instance and people were just sort of ignoring that and focusing as they do on paling it seems that even some high powered conservatives are now. now going

back to glenn beck's interview with it was it a fortune and forbes magazine last year in which he referred to himself as a rodeo clown said he didn't give a damn about politics he just in it for the money made what twenty eight million last year i guess he's claiming that something like that twenty million. even some of his conservative colleagues are referring to him as a rodeo clown and occasionally as a shrewd businessman rather than. a talk show host church elevation or whatever is he is the right waking up to him or are they starting to take him you know as they start to be a little squirrelly about it i think they are you i think that what it took was that during the during the uprisings in various middle eastern countries in the last couple of months you know he started basically making theories out of supporting that would support his new book mubarak staying in power support other middle eastern dictators seen a power that clashed with neo conservative ideals and so when becks you know when

they started seemed x. theories going against their ideas they're like wait a second this doesn't add up this guy doesn't add up maybe maybe we were wrong to take him seriously the whole time. it's it's it's really quite remarkable james thanks so much for coming so having me here talking with you can close your eyes for a moment and think of an america that's not afraid of minority community organizing groups like acorn not afraid of the muslim brotherhood would not afraid fema concentration camps are there for you and not afraid of george soros this was the america before glenn beck let's hope we can return to it's soon there's always been a ready market for paranoia it's you know we're animals human beings we can't we can't you know we're we're mammals and animals are kind of wired to look out for predators because we're the top predator in the food chain we look out for others like us. with us we have these this kind of genetic when to wire in

a family and clan and tribe and all this kind of stuff and and look out for the other and so the one of the consequences is that the people who scream look i look out are listened to more readily and more frequently than those people who are saying let's make things better and this this is frankly a real tragedy in my grandfather's generation it was father coughlin who would go on i believe we have a court of public. of these things the majority of you with this audience has not been in for on. the government him just real mobilization plan grow vij or several administrative. or labor crazy financial crisis come from. the state runs my friends are all victims of

fancy. rules i have not been disclosed anywhere american people don't. go away obs for you products which draw with those who preach to you about vioxx use of the press eight. ready have confessed the. order to strongly about its best the job the press like. this was in the mid one nine hundred thirty s. he's talking about franklin roosevelt. and you know there are many people who are saying well glenn beck is a modern friend father kaufman years. there are dates in this country that will live in infamy black tuesday october twenty ninth nine hundred twenty nine pearl harbor december seventh one hundred forty one september eleventh two thousand and one and now i believe you can add july twenty first two thousand and ten so this list this will be the day it will be remembered is the day that the final nail in

the republic was founded into the coffin frankly i believe that this nation that i was born into that i'm a citizen of proudly is better than that there were better than eight and fear as franklin roosevelt said so brilliantly not speaking of world war two put in one nine hundred thirty three speaking of the great depression franklin roosevelt look at a nation of people who were terrified because of twelve years of republican rule and the disastrous economic consequences of the republican great depression and said this. let me are right. that the only way we have. there are no name miller on reasoning on the part. which paralyzed it is meted out a. writ free and there were. still

and that's and that's franklin roosevelt and that's that's for i think we need to be right now. still ahead when it comes to not balancing our nation's budgets do we really need to amend the constitution to do so the first time the belt balanced budget amendment of your cruise or most of the birth. of flimsy low and keep all the pretty chilled out using women that nothing people are suggesting she's told her no she says she's a star.